Urumchi, September 2 4 (Xinhuanet) (reporter Liu Bing , Chen Fei) people often liken the place where the water and soil are fertile , the produce is abundant into " cornucopia ", but one relies on special foreign trade policy in Xinjiang of northwest corner of China, assemble " cornucopia " in the hinterland and surrounding countries wealth --Port of Huorguosi.
Huorguosi lies in the intersection of Huocheng county of Xinjiang and Kazakhstan, Mongol means " the place into a pile of camel excrement ", in Sui Tang period on
It is the important post on Silk Road. Since modern times, Huorguosi has been the distributing centres of our country and trade of various countries of Central Asia all the time , " changing trading rules of land route definitely in China and Russia " after signing in 1881, Huorguosi becomes the trading port formally .
Port secretary of management committee Jia YiSheng in Huorguosi says, because of enjoy reputation everywhere, assembled the billowing logistics both at home and abroad after this century-old port resumed open in 1983, the cargoes imported and exported of port were up to 2.5 ten thousand tons in 1984, the volume of trade was up to 4700 ten thousand dollars, the number of people of entry and exit is more than 9000 persons. After the Soviet Union disintegrates, the port of Huorguosi welcomes more rare opportunity for development, in August of 1992, the governments of China and Kazakhstan agreed to open the port to the third country formally , there is a position of international through transport in Huorguosi, the volume of trade rises and becomes our country to lead to Central Asia and the largest highway port of various countries of Europe year by year, it is up to 200 ten thousand tons to cross the ability of the goods every year, the annual number of people of travel is up to 300 ten thousand persons.
It is reported, in order to strengthen the economic and trade contacts of China and Kazakhstan , make the contiguous areas realize long-term stability , mutual prosperity, the governments of two countries sign the agreement on September 24 , 2004 , establish the cooperation in international border of China and Kazakhstan in the centre in Huorguosi. The agreement proposes that Sino-Kazakhstan both sides mark land of 14.36 sq. km. and establish the cooperation in international border of Huorguosi in the centre altogether in each border, rely on its position advantage of extending across two countries and preferential policy which two countries entrust to, develop foreign trade , goods exhibitting and selling , financial service , storage transporting and tourism and leisure in a more cost-effective manner, become facing Central Asia and West Asia , collecting and distributing , goods trade , going sightseeing for integrative comprehensive International Trade Center that South Asia and even area of eastern Europe collect the goods, bring about an advance in bilateral trades of China and Kazakhstan and exchange in a friendly way, quicken the development of frontier regional economy. In the first ten days of August of this year, the international commerce trading center of port of Huorguosi of Xinjiang of first-phase investment of 4000 ten thousand yuan breaks ground formally , indicate that the international cooperative centres of border of China and Kazakhstan begin to enter the implementing stage.
Jia YiSheng thinks , the implementation of the international cooperative centres of border of China and Kazakhstan will make the port of Huorguosi become cornucopia which will assemble the hinterland and wealth of various countries of perimeter gradually, and traverse the national arterial highway of the western and eastern of our country with October of 2004 - -Lianyun Harbour of Jiangsu is to the building up completely of the superhighway of Huorguosi, and the first electric railway of Xinjiang of the gross investment of the same age of 60 hundred million yuan - -Precise Iraq railway Huo formal to go into operation, Huorguosi port develop foreign trade play a more important role in our country. (End)